60NYT > Wilbert Rideautopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/wilbert_rideau/index.html?rss=1News about Wilbert Rideau, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usFri 09 Dec 2016 10:44:25 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comThe View From Insidehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/06/13/books/review/Oshinsky/Oshinsky-thumbStandard-v2.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Wilbert Rideau’s painfully candid memoir describes his decades in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison.By DAVID OSHINSKYSun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssOne Man&#8217;s Hard Road, From Existing to Livinghttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/books/05book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/books/05book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/05/05/arts/05book_CA0/05book_CA0-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Wilbert Rideau’s prison memoir traces his path from despair to redemption in the notorious Angola prison in Louisiana.By DWIGHT GARNERWed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/books/05book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss$127,000 in Fees Is Voided for Former Prison Journalisthttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/us/06prisoner.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWilbert Rideau does not have to pay the court costs that a Louisiana state district judge assessed him last year, an appeals court ruled.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/us/06prisoner.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNational Briefing | South: Louisiana: Judge Orders Payment Of Trial Costshttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E6DF173FF937A15750C0A9639C8B63?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA judge in Calcasieu Parish has ordered Wilbert Rideau, a convicted killer who was released in January after a fourth trial reduced his sentence, to pay trial costs that are likely to total $127,000, his lawyer said. The judge, David A. Ritchie of...By Ariel Hart (NYT)Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E6DF173FF937A15750C0A9639C8B63?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMan to Be Freed After 4th Trialhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/national/16rideau.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA black prison journalist who was convicted of murder three times by all-white juries won his freedom after 44 years in prison.Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/national/16rideau.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWhile Little Evidence Endures, Fourth Trial Opens in '61 Killinghttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/national/11rideau.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/national/11rideau.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2005/01/10/national/rideau.7575.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Wilbert Rideau has begun another trial for a killing that has already cost him 44 years in prison.By ADAM LIPTAKTue, 11 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/national/11rideau.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBrutal Crime, Long Punishmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177024.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: Re ''When Forever Is Far Too Long,'' by Daniel Bergner (Op-Ed, June 17):Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177024.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBrutal Crime, Long Punishmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177059.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: Daniel Bergner (''When Forever Is Far Too Long,'' Op-Ed, June 17) suggests that sentences of life without parole do not consider the ''spectacular changes we as human beings can sometimes accomplish.''Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177059.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBrutal Crime, Long Punishmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177016.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: Daniel Bergner's account of the rehabilitation of Wilbert Rideau, convicted for a killing committed in 1961 in the aftermath of a bank robbery, was moving (''When Forever Is Far Too Long,'' Op-Ed, June 17).Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177016.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBrutal Crime, Long Punishmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177075.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: Daniel Bergner (Op-Ed, June 17) dismisses parenthetically the fact that life without parole has been championed as an option superior to execution. He may have contempt for people who hold that view, but the reality is that it's not...Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/opinion/l-brutal-crime-long-punishment-177075.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss